Time reminding device



Dec. 19, 1933. s c coc 1,940,453

TIME REMINDING' DEVICE Filed Jan. 16, 1933 @ZZZ A'lTORNEY Patented Dec.19,1933 g f V I I i i owne s-TB PA N M 7 1,940,453 y I TIME REMINDINGDEvIoE Helen Sargent Hitchcock, New York, N. r Application'January16,1933, seriainacsims Claims. (01. ncren My-present invention referstocertain new and Similar characters of reference designate corusefulimprovements in timing or remindingderesponding parts in thedifferentfigures of the vices for nursea patients and others, that are drawing, zV s c usually capable of being set to indicate when a 1 denotes a clockdial or face, covered by glass predetermined interval of time haselapsed, or 1a, said dial having the usual hands, as hour when the pointof time arrives when a future hand 2 and minute hand 3, the dial beingmarked event is to take place or an act to be performed, withthe usualtime numerals of any kind and such as for example the taking of the nextdose minute graduations. This is only one example of medicine by a sickperson, or the performance of a clock or timepiece. My invention isgeneral F of the next act in a recurrent series of acts at and can beapplied, to any timepiece used for '65 specified intervals apart, someone of which acts marking time. might be overlooked if the memory alonewere 4 denotes a body device or member that has depended upon to adviseas to the appointed time a suction cup on one side at '7 and carries ahand for such act, or the time for the taking of such or pointer 5 whichis designed to point to one of 5 medicine. The usefulness of such areminding the hour numerals or minute degrees, or both, as 7 device isgreatly increased by constructing the shown on the dial 1 near itsperiphery, so that device in a form or design which will attract and byattaching the suction cup '7 to the dialglass amuse the patient,especially when such patient 1a the device 4 can be located in somecentral is a child, by captivating the watchful attention or otherposition over the dial face 1 with hand and thus more effectuallyensuring a recognition 5 in a stationary position, pointing at some one75 of the time when the next dose is due or another of the dial figures.I act is to be performed. The suction member 4 may take a variety of Theinvention consists essentially in combinadifferent forms. In Figure '1it'is made in the tion with a timepiece dial of any kind having a formof a mouse having on the under side a con- 5 face on which units of timeare marked and emcave recess '7 in the rubber or other material of 80 py vable hands or pointers that measure which the mouse is made. Thesuction of cavity or indicate the time, of a separate, distinct and 7when the mouse image is pressed tightly independent device that isadapted to be removaagainst the face of glass is causes the mouse to yattached y Suction means otherwise adhere or stick closely to the clock.The mouse the face of the timepiece and which carries an n at any timebe readfly'detached from clock adjustable hand r p in r whi h is adaptedto be dial by slightly lifting the edge of the recess 7 fi y pointed atOF 130 the 110111 Ortime at Wh and allowing air to, enter and break thevacuum the next medicine dose is due, or at which some so that the mousecan be loosened and removed. 7 time interval will be concludedand someact is due Running through the solid rubber body of the 35 to beperformed The Suction means may be demouse 4, by being imbedded thereinwhen mold- 90' signed in form of a small animal, as a rodent, ed, abovethe cavity 7 is a pointer or hand'5, bird, or other living creature, oras a conventional hi h projects di t from mouse, t fi ure, ornam n d in, r button, provi d y 1y or rearwardly or otherwise as preferred. Thisthat it has a suction p n hand pointer hand 5 has a spiral section 6where it enters the r 40 mounted thereon, the hand being adjustable asbodyof themouse, so that it can screw into said ,95

to its effective length. body for a greater or less distance and in thisAnd'the invention also comprises numerous way the length f hand orpointer projecting details and peculiarities in the construction, comtide of and away from themouse-figure can binat Oh a d arrangement of pSubstantially be changed at will to enable the hand to be varied as Willbe hereinafter described and claimed. in length to correspond with thedifferent, length 100 r In the a mp nyin dr w ng i l r in my of radiusof various clock faces with which the invention: timing device may beused.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved Instead of an animal figureof which the little timing device, shown as practically applied torodent 4 is an example, the suction member may the face of a clock. be around button, as 8, having a. suction cavity 195 Figure 2 i a r si nalelev i n f the 9 and operating in a manner similar. to the mouse same. ifigure. The hand 5a having a spirally bent sec-' Figure 3 is a sectionalview of an alternative tion 6a is passed screwlike through a cap or formof suction holder. protuberance on the button' 8 and allowed to 7 Figure4 is a plan. view of the same. project one or both ways, one end.pointing to the" 1-0 time units'of the dial. This button may be of anyform, and in any conventional shape or design.

The rather novel and fanciful appearance of a mouse design or otherlittle animal onthe face of a clock dial will catch the thought and holdthe gaze of a child, and even an older person, so that the mind will bekept on the pointer and the time reading that it is set to mark. For thechild might suppose the mouse to be alive and might watch to see it jumpor move, and thus the attention would be concentrated on the clock.

And from the fact that thechild or patient has his attention held andisamused by something curious, the nurse'or patient will be apt tonotice also what the patient is noticing, so that the time interval willbe Watched and the time for the next medicine or act will not beoverlooked.

Obviously the mouse may have any form and shape, and other littleanimals of many breeds and kinds may be substituted, or plain designs ofstill forms, provided the same can carry a suction means to enable it tobe fastened firmly and quickly on a dial glass and provided also that itcan holdan adjustable finger which may direct the attention to a timefigure at which an act is to be performed. Therefore the invention willbe found to have a wide variety of applications. And even outside of thesuggested field a pointer that can be removably attached to a clockcrystal to note the future time for doing some act will be found of muchvalue and service.

What I claim, is:

1. In a reminding device, the combination with a timepiece dial, of abody having suction means to attach it to the dial, and atime-indicating stationary pointer carried by the body and formed with aspiral section that screwsinto the body and adjusts the length of thepointer relativelyto the radius of the dial.

. 2. In a device of the class described, a clock face, a body havingsuction means to attach it thereto, and a time pointer screwedadjustably HELEN SARGENT HITCHCOCK;

